LG Najeeb Jung ‘blocks’ probe against Jaitley, MHA to decide today

Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung has reportedly rejected the probe ordered by the Delhi government in the DDCA corruption.

According to media reports, Jung had, in a communication to the home ministry on Wednesday evening, said that the Commission of Inquiry Act, 1952 empowered only the Centre and state governments to appoint a commission of inquiry.

Since Delhi was a Union Territory and short of full statehood, a commission of inquiry ought to have been ordered in ‘concurrence of the Centre, through the LG.’

An embarrassed BJP had suspended Azad after repeated efforts by the party leadership failed to stop him from going ahead with the expose against Jaitley, who’s considered to be the most powerful leader in the central government after Modi.

The LG reports to central government through the MHA, which is headed by Rajnath Singh. Aam Aadmy Party, which had won 67 out of 70 seats in Delhi earlier this year has always accused LG of working at the behest of PMO to disrupt governance in the capital.

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